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List of events
Events from the year 1850 in the United States .
Incumbents
Governors and
lieutenant governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama :
Henry W. Collier (
Democratic )
Governor of Arkansas :
John Selden Roane (
Democratic )
Governor of California :
Peter Hardeman Burnett (
Democratic ) (starting September 9)
Governor of Connecticut :
Joseph Trumbull (
Whig ) (until May 4),
Thomas H. Seymour (
Democratic ) (starting May 4)
Governor of Delaware :
William Tharp (
Democratic )
Governor of Florida :
Thomas Brown (
Whig )
Governor of Georgia :
George W. Towns (
Democratic )
Governor of Illinois :
Augustus C. French (
Democratic )
Governor of Indiana :
Joseph A. Wright (
Democratic )
Governor of Iowa :
Ansel Briggs (
Democratic ) (until December 4),
Stephen P. Hempstead (
Democratic ) (starting December 4)
Governor of Kentucky :
John J. Crittenden (
Whig ) (until July 13),
John L. Helm (
Democratic ) (starting July 13)
Governor of Louisiana :
Isaac Johnson (
Democratic ) (until January 28),
Joseph Marshall Walker (
Democratic ) (starting January 28)
Governor of Maine :
John W. Dana (
Democratic ) (until May 8),
John Hubbard (
Democratic ) (starting May 8)
Governor of Maryland :
Philip F. Thomas (
Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts :
George N. Briggs (
Democratic )
Governor of Michigan :
Epaphroditus Ransom (
Democratic ) (until January 7),
John S. Barry (
Democratic ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Mississippi :
Joseph W. Matthews (
Democratic ) (until January 10),
John A. Quitman (
Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Missouri :
Austin Augustus King (
Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire :
Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr. (
Democratic )
Governor of New Jersey :
Daniel Haines (
Democratic )
Governor of New York :
Hamilton Fish (
Whig ) (until end of December 31)
Governor of North Carolina :
Charles Manly (
Whig )
Governor of Ohio :
Seabury Ford (
Whig ) (until December 12),
Reuben Wood (
Democratic ) (starting December 12)
Governor of Pennsylvania :
William F. Johnston (
Whig )
Governor of Rhode Island :
Henry B. Anthony (
Whig )
Governor of South Carolina :
Whitemarsh B. Seabrook (
Democratic ) (until December 13),
John Hugh Means (
Democratic ) (starting December 13)
Governor of Tennessee :
William Trousdale (
Democratic )
Governor of Texas :
Peter Hansborough Bell (
Democratic )
Governor of Vermont :
Carlos Coolidge (
Whig ) (until October 11),
Charles K. Williams (
Whig ) (starting October 11)
Governor of Virginia :
John B. Floyd (
Democratic )
Governor of Wisconsin :
Nelson Dewey (
Democratic )
Lieutenant governors
Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
July 9: Vice President
Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th U.S. president with the death of President
Taylor
October–December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 1 –
John Barclay Armstrong , Texas Ranger lieutenant and a U.S. Marshal (died
1913 )
January 10 –
John Wellborn Root , Chicago architect (died
1891 )
January 18 –
Seth Low , educator (died
1916 )
January 24 –
Mary Noailles Murfree , novelist (died
1922 )
January 27 –
Samuel Gompers , labor union leader (died
1924 )
January 28 –
Edward Merritt Hughes , U.S. Navy officer (died
1903 )
February 1 –
Emma Churchman Hewitt , author and journalist (died
1921 )
February 2 –
Cassius Aurelius Boone , Mayor of Orlando and businessman (died
1917 )
February 6 –
Elizabeth Williams Champney , author (died
1922 )
[5]
February 8
February 15 –
Albert B. Cummins , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1908 to 1926 (died
1926 )
February 27
March 9 –
Daniel B. Towner , hymn composer (died
1919 )
March 26 –
Edward Bellamy , Utopian novelist and socialist (died
1898 )
[7]
March 31 –
Charles Doolittle Walcott , invertebrate paleontologist (died 1927)
April 3 –
Zina P. Young Card , Mormon leader and women's rights activist (died
1931 )
April 8 –
John Peters , baseball player (died
1924 )
April 10 –
Mary Emilie Holmes , geologist and educator (died
1906 )
April 11
April 18 –
Joseph Labadie , labor organizer (died
1933 )
April 20 –
Daniel Chester French , sculptor (died
1931 )
April 30
May 8 –
Ross Barnes , baseball player and manager (died
1915 )
May 12 –
Henry Cabot Lodge , statesman (died
1924 )
May 14 –
Alva Adams , 3-time Governor of Colorado (died
1922 )
June 3 –
Albert M. Todd , businessman and politician (died 1931)
June 5 –
Pat Garrett , bartender and sheriff (died
1908 )
June 15 –
Charles Hazelius Sternberg , paleontologist (died 1943)
June 18
June 21 –
Daniel Carter Beard , Scouting pioneer (died
1941 )
July 2 –
Robert Ridgway , ornithologist (died
1929 )
July 7 –
William E. Mason , U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1897 to 1903 (died
1921 )
July 8 –
Charles Rockwell Lanman , Sanskrit scholar (died 1941)
July 11 –
Annie Armstrong , Baptist leader (died
1938 )
July 12 –
Newell Sanders , businessman and politician (died 1938)
July 18 –
Rose Hartwick Thorpe , poet (died
1939 )
July 20 –
John G. Shedd , businessman (died
1926 )
July 25 –
Lydia J. Newcomb Comings , educator (died
1946 )
July 28 –
William Whittingham Lyman , vintner (died 1921)
July 31 –
Robert Love Taylor , Tennessee congressman (died 1912)
August 28 –
Charles H. Aldrich , Solicitor General of the U.S. (died 1929)
September 2 –
Eugene Field , poet and essayist (died
1895 )
September 6 –
Marion Howard Brazier , journalist (died
1935 )
October 1
October 14 –
Newton E. Mason , rear admiral (died
1945 )
October 30 –
John Patton, Jr. , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1894 to 1895 (died
1907 )
November 5 –
Ella Wheeler Wilcox , poet (died 1919)
November 18 –
John S. Armstrong , real estate developer (died 1908)
December 9 –
Emma Abbott , operatic soprano (died 1891)
December 21 –
William Wallace Lincoln , third son of
Abraham Lincoln and
Mary Todd Lincoln (died
1862 )
December 23 –
Louise Reed Stowell , scientist and author (died
1932 )
[11]
December 25 –
Florence Griswold , art curator (died
1937 )
Deaths
Zachary Taylor
February 1 –
Edward Baker Lincoln , second son of
Abraham Lincoln (born
1846 )
March 3 –
Oliver Cowdery , religious leader (born
1806 )
March 21 –
Miguel Pedrorena , early settler of
San Diego ,
California (born c.
1808 )
March 28 –
Gerard Brandon , fourth and sixth governor of Mississippi from 1825 to 1826 and from 1826 to 1832 (born
1788 )
March 31 –
John C. Calhoun , seventh
vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832 (born
1782 )
April 12 –
Adoniram Judson ,
Congregationalist and later
Baptist missionary (born
1788 )
April 24 –
John Norvell , U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1837 to 1841 (born
1789 )
May 16 –
William Hendricks , U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1825 to 1837 (born
1782 )
July 9 –
Zachary Taylor , 12th
president of the United States from 1849 to 1850 (born
1784 )
July 19 –
Margaret Fuller , journalist, literary critic and women's rights advocate, presumed drowned (born
1810 )
November 19 –
Richard Mentor Johnson , ninth vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1819 to 1829 (born
1780 )
See also
References
^
"Sacramento; an illustrated history: 1839 to 1874, from Sutter's Fort to Capital City" . Archive.org . 1973.
^
"University of Rochester History: Chapter 3, The Year of Decisions: 1850" . rbscp.lib.rochester.edu .
^
Burke, James (1978).
Connections . London: Macmillan. p.
240 .
ISBN
0-333-24827-9 .
^
"The Historic Pacific Highway from Vancouver to Castle Rock" . pacific-hwy.net .
^
Herringshaw's American Blue-book of Biography: Prominent Americans of ... An Accurate Biographical Record of Prominent Citizens in All Walks of Life ... American Publishers' Association. 1915. p. 243.
^ Emily Toth; Per Seyersted (October 22, 1998).
Kate Chopin's Private Papers . Indiana University Press. p. 1.
ISBN
0-253-11593-0 .
^ Howard Quint, The Forging of American Socialism: Origins of the Modern Movement: The Impact of Socialism on American Thought and Action, 1886–1901. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1953; p. 74.
^ The West Virginia Encyclopedia . West Virginia Humanities Council. 2006. p. 478.
ISBN
9780977849802 .
^ Feld, Rose C. (1922).
"Cyrus H. K. Curtis, The Man: Musician, Editor, Publisher and Capitalist" . The New York Times (22 October 1922). Retrieved April 7, 2013 .
^ Leonard, John W. (1914). "McComas, Alice Moore".
Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915 (Public domain ed.). American commonwealth Company. p.
512 .
^ Marquis, Albert Nelson (1915).
Who's who in New England: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut (Public domain ed.). A.N. Marquis & Company.
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